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--Some bulllpen depth/improvement is needed or perhaps an upgrade at 5th starter with Rhoden going to the pen. We've got 40M to spend on that though. Its going to be an easy offseason for Emerald City.

--The Knights will require more work. 3B, RF and DH are vacancies. LF and CF both have playing time issues and will need good backups. Several of my SP will need somebody to pick up innings slack for them.

The Beavers and Lumberjacks have agreed to a trade. The Beavers get Jim Palmer and Charlie Moore; the Lumberjacks get the Beavers 1979 #1 draft pick, Fred Norman and Carlton Fisk. Both Fisk and Palmer are franchise players. The Beavers will sign Palmer for 2 years at 14M.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah

The Thunder sign Dave Goltz to a one year deal for 13 million. I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised to get him at that price. Being a one year guy, I thought he could easily end up with a payday over 15 M.

With Goltz I have 3 pitchers with a WAR above 5.0 (Eckersley, Goltz, and Tiant). By WAR, I believe the only club with a better trio is the Corsairs (Niekro at 9.1, Guidry at 8.1, Matlack 6.1).

"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa

"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)

The Thunder sign Dave Goltz to a one year deal for 13 million. I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised to get him at that price. Being a one year guy, I thought he could easily end up with a payday over 15 M.

With Goltz I have 3 pitchers with a WAR above 5.0 (Eckersley, Goltz, and Tiant). By WAR, I believe the only club with a better trio is the Corsairs (Niekro at 9.1, Guidry at 8.1, Matlack 6.1).

Those are some impressive WAR totals. IP's has something to do with those numbers. It would be interesting to see which pitching staff has the highest WAR total or best BF/WAR ratio

Angels staff has 33.6 WAR and 264 BF/WAR ratio

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"A ballplayer has to just go out and be mean. You can't play half-heartedly. If you do, there's someone right over your shoulder that'll take your job away. If you don't do your job, what they're paying you for, why should they pay you? You just can't put in eight hours, that's what a lot of people don't realize about athletes. Very few people realize the pressure." Dave Kingman

With my current projected staff, I have 32.7 WAR and a 205 BF/WAR ratio. If I decide to replace Campbell (0.3 WAR in 226 BF) with Jim Wright (1.9 WAR in 480 BF) those numbers will only improve. I'll have to see how the preseason sims shake out.

"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa

"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)

All stats, including sabremetric ones, can only give a fair indication of how a team will produce on the field. You guys will have a reasonable idea, but with guys pitching in a different park, with different fielders behind them, and in what has now become a semi-all star league (we're only using 66% of players, and that's assuming only a 40 man roster for each real life team), they are just that - fair estimates. It will be interesting to see how those totals convert to the sim once it gets underway. I thought the Lumberjacks would win their division last year while the Legends would struggle; instead, the Legends won more games and came closer to the playoffs.

You see, you spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. J. Bouton

All stats, including sabremetric ones, can only give a fair indication of how a team will produce on the field. You guys will have a reasonable idea, but with guys pitching in a different park, with different fielders behind them, and in what has now become a semi-all star league (we're only using 66% of players, and that's assuming only a 40 man roster for each real life team), they are just that - fair estimates. It will be interesting to see how those totals convert to the sim once it gets underway. I thought the Lumberjacks would win their division last year while the Legends would struggle; instead, the Legends won more games and came closer to the playoffs.

Oh, I know exactly what you mean. The '73 Thunder were the favorite to win the division, instead they flopped and I was forced to have a massive firesale. You never know how the sim gods will treat you. Still, pitching wise I feel very good. My pitchers have good stats, my park favors them, and my fielders are acceptable (though not nearly as good as last year's club).

"I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
- Sammy Sosa

"Get a comfy chair, Sammy, cause its gonna be a long wait."
- Craig Ashley (AKA Windy City Fan)